grand designs 2013 - will there be polish builders this time?

[MousyMouse]

starts tomorrow.
sooo excited!

how many pregnant ladies?
major building desasters?
blown budgets?

Lots of window cleaning. £1.2m!!! Its an advert for local burglars.

Yay

This looks better!

next weeks looks much more interesting.
see you all then!

Big over-priced glass extension - tick!
Timber clad - tick!
Polished concrete - tick!
No window coverings - tick!
Flat roof - tick!
Piss off the builders - tick!
Impractical design - tick!

The only thing they missed was getting pregnant half way through the build.

Next week looks a lot better.

Yes - It looked like semi-nude shots. How on earth could you let a film crwe into your house with those on display?

Yay - next week is back to the GD roots by the look of it with the grand designer getting down and dirty instead of writing fat cheques and swanning around moaning about 3 pin sockets.

is no one watching build a house for £100k on bbc 2? I'm finding it miles better.
Last night's was hilarious. 4 years to make a wonky gazebo.

Yes - we discussed it on Property forum last night.

ooh, I've never noticed the property forum.

the bbc series is interesting even though the designer/architect are bloody patronising lots of good ideas on how to use materials. I particularly liked the scottish 50k building.

I'm a week behind and have just finished last weeks episode, the Japanese house in the woods. Thought Kevin was sailing a bit close to the wind continually referring to the Welsh builders - that firm is from Lydney in the Forest of Dean and they all sounded like Foresters to me! Foresters don't like being called Welsh...
Thats about the fourth GD around here, the barn converted by Greek builders several series ago is near me, up for sale again - far too expensive for the area without land. You do wonder how long people stay in some of them.

moogy1a, I know the people in the house for 100k programme, as with all these things there was a lot they didn't mention in the programme, and a lot of it was set up.

In particular they didn't mention the fact that there are at a minimum count half a dozen houses built in just the same way within the county and all this 'oh Jane doesn't know what it will look like' is total bollocks. (Having said that I still think reciprocal frame roofs are a daft way to make a house )

It did also make me giggle a bit the fact that they went and looked at all these vastly expensive houses to show 'this is the way you should do sustainable building' when they could have gone & filmed the Roundhouse or Charlie and Meg's house which is all of 5 minutes walk away.

Why didn't they have a woodburner? Certainly looked as though they'd need one. Hated them when they said the oak banister rail was in a skip!

Having a Kevin day. Just caught up on his ma made home, watched the Japanese house couple. Nuts way to go about it but nice people. Just started the next one and I don't like their smug faces already

A cob citadel eh?

I'm liking this - although can't understand how mud won't collapse in extreme rain.

Well this is a bit different!

Well this is a bit different!

I'm liking this - although can't understand how mud won't collapse in extreme rain.

Oh - don't know how that happened.

We hiccuped!

I reckon it's the hugest build yet.

- looks like they've bitten off more than they can chew though.